You might be railfan if you…
Daya dream about trains in school or at work
if you drive from Los Angeles to Dallas to show your 4 year old son a Bigboy at the Age of Steam Museum
(yep I know CMW, it’s an UP[xx(][:p])
or maybe I’m a yUPpie ?
you are so fixated on them that your wife leaves you and your dog bites you
you look for railroad tracks everywhere you go instead of enjoying the immediate surrounding scenery…
you enlist in the U.S. Army just to travel to Iraq to see the Najab to Karbala Railroad.
Your garage walls are covered in posters of locomotives instead of swim suit models!
You paint your car for your favorite railroad.
You’ve memorized railroad scanner frequencies
You sit around for 5 hours waiting for a train (I’ve done that)
You walk away from your wife without a word when given the chance to ride in the cab of a GP38-2 (#424, 8/24/02, 9:15 AM)
Tom
You drive the long way home in hopes of being stopped at a rail crossing!
You plan on making an outdoor climbing apparatus for your daughter in the shape of a GP38-2 out of wood.
Complete with operating headlight, cab doors & simulated controls.
Gordon
…You actually want to buy a home next to the tracks!
…You build a really tall treehouse for your kids, but plan to use it as a train watching outpost.
…At every four way street crossing on the way to work, you blast out long-long-short-long grade crossing signals, and buy one of those “train horns” advertised in the J.C. Whitney catalogue to do it.
…For some odd reason, every town you want to move to is a major rail center.
…You get a factory job just so you can watch the locomotives switch cars all day.
Anyone for “You Might be a Redneck…”?
By the way, Dougal, I want a white truck with a red stripe around it so it looks like a CB&Q F-unit![(-D]
You live in an old Railroad car (such as a caboose or a passenger car)
You go to the local railyard and ask for a cabride
You actually try to order an SD70MAC, and when asked why, you say “Oh, I just want it in my backyard to simulate a real train and practice my photography skills”.[;)]
You go to your local GM dealer and demand an SD90
You go to the GE apliance store and demad a Dash-9.
You paint your RV Dark Gray with Light Gray Lightning Stripes, and call it the 20th Century Limited.
you have a paint scheme nicknamed after you (go Norange!)
If you watch the TRIANS web cam when you should be researching William Shakespeare for a term paper that is due in a week.
LOL
the answer to your math problem is lineAC=4400.
You wonder why everyone wearing “Fighting Illini College Team” shirts look at you funny, trying to figure out what team “BNSF” is supposed to be.
I am guilty of all of these:
You might be a railfan if…
…you spend an hour out in rain and hail to get a few photographs which don’t look all that wonderful anyway, because it was raining
…you wait seven hours to photograph one train, and don’t really mind it
…on a trip to the California coast, you wake up early every morning just to photograph two Surfliners, and spend no time at the beach
…you read five train periodicals and four museum newsetters
…it annoys you that spell check on your computer doesn’t recognize lashup, intermodal, superheater, catenary, or railfan, but does recognize airfreight
…you think of Pacific, Mountain, and Atlantic as locomotive types, not time zones
See you around the forums,
Daniel
you book a motel near the tracks in San Diego to find out that the close a crossing from 1 at night untill 4 or 5 oçlock in the morning and don’t switch of the bell!
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and stay there for tree nights [:p]